Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943 · London : Seeley · leaf 13
e saw that it required a different kind of handling from 12 DUTCH ETCHERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY that suitable for the burin; and in his few etched plates the work isfreer and more open than that of his line-engravings. The first men to use etching extensively were the Hopfer family ofAugsburg,… … Fig. 3.— Game of Backgammon^ From a drawing by Ostade. British Museum. carry on the Niirnberg tradition of engraving, through another medium.They had little or no influence on the Dutchmen, A new and powerful stimulus, however, was to be given to etchingwith the beginning of the seventeenth…
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